Is London Conference Becoming a Taliban Fundraiser?

Initially organized chiefly to try to lure major military commitments from NATO member nations for the ongoing war in Afghanistan, Thursday’s London Conference was eventually redefined as an all-purpose planning session for a massive nation-building effort.

But as most of that planning seems to have gone on behind closed doors before the conference, it seems now that the most high profile goal for the conference is fundraising, and more precisely fundraising for a Taliban “buyout.”

Even then it remains to be seen how willing the Taliban will be to come to the bargaining table, as the war’s momentum seems to be in their favor. The Afghan government claims the Taliban are ready and willing, but they have made similar claims in the past which turned out to be false. If nothing else they will probably be eager to come to the table to claim their money, once NATO finishes raising it.

How ridiculous this is. It could only happen in an episode of "Get Smart"or maybe "Hogan's Heroes".
What is the world coming to? I thought General McChrystal and the other loonies in charge of the war in Afghanistan stated quite clearly that they were "winning"the war and that the "surge"would hasten victory.
Why then do they need to bribe the Taliban to stop fighting?

John

You do know that most fight because they are poor. Look up their unemployment rate, than think about this stragety. The plan here is to get ride of fighters before the surge so that we don't have to kill so many of them. Than hopefully we will have a position of strength and can began building infrastructure givening them jobs. So less death on both sides.